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How 'Dharavi model' helped bring down Covid-19 cases in second wave

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Dharavi Model was activated again to stem the spread of the infection, he said."Door-to-door screening of people with symptoms, aggressive testing, regular screening and testing of Dharavi residents who work in different parts of Mumbai, including delivery personnel, industrial workers, helped to control the spread of the pandemic," Dighavkar said.Dharavi has a population of 6.5 lakh, which means 2,27,136 people living per sq km.

Social distancing was next to impossible in Dharavi, where families of eight to 10 people live in 10x10 hutments.Apart from congested slum pockets, Dharavi is home to several small-scale leather, pottery and textile manufacturing units.The area has 5,000 GST-registered enterprises, 15,000 single-room factories and.

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